Also known as Intertrappean Beds of Anjar

Where: Gujarat, India (23.1° N, 70.0° E: paleocoordinates 20.6° S, 54.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• intertrappean bed between Deccan basal flows V and IV, dated after 65.1±1.5 my

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; shelly/skeletal siltstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: S. Bajpai and G. V. R. Prasad. 2000. Cretaceous age for Ir-rich Deccan intertrappean deposits: palaeontological evidence from Anjar, western India. Journal of the Geological Society, London 157:257-260 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 72320: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 01.06.2007, edited by Grace Varnham

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